19th Century Anglican Bishop J.C. Ryle wrote the following in The Real Presence: What Is It?
'My reason for saying that there is no bodily presence of Christ in the Lords Supper or in the consecrated bread and wine, is simply this: there is no such presence taught anywhere in Holy Scripture. It is a presence that can never be honestly and fairly got out of the Bible. Let the three accounts of the institution of the Lords Supper, in the Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke, and the one given by St. Paul to the Corinthians, be weighed and examined impartially, and I have no doubt as to the result. They teach that the Lord Jesus, in the same night that He was betrayed, took bread, and gave it to His disciples, saying, Take, eat: this is My body; and also took the cup of wine, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this: this is My blood. But there is nothing in the simple narrative, or in the verses which follow it, which shows that the disciples thought their Masters body and blood were really present in the bread and wine which they received. There is not a word in the epistles to show that after our Lords ascension into heaven the Christians believed that His body and blood were present in an ordinance celebrated on earth, or that the bread in the Lords Supper, after consecration, was not truly and literally bread, and the wine truly and literally wine.'